PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 encryption problem 162.198...

Please explain the hardware involved.

Hello!

The hardware involved is PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 and 3Com OfficeConnect  Wireless 11b Cable/DSL Gateway. Wired connections are working fine! And wireless connections without encryption is working fine, i think. Looking at the logs in the gateway it seems like the adapter is disconnecting and connecting pretty often. I was hoping wireless was easy :-))

It could be the firmware in the gateway.

Will get an answer to this tomorrow when i get an newer model of the gateway.

Any idea?

//Ståle

You say the log shows fairly often drops of the wireless - is that with encryption - you said "without encryption works fine, I think"?  I would make sure the router has the latest firmware, that you are using the latest 2100 driver, and search this forum for +1300 +loosing +connection and read what others have done.  You should get an IP address in the 192.168. range as that is in the router's DHCP pool of addresses to give out.

I was having the same issue you had. I recently installed a netgear wireless router and my intel 2100 just could not retrieve an IP from the network. I used CMD to release/renew the IP and nothing. I reset the router and cable modem and nothing. I thought it may have been a router issue so I configured it as much as I could and nothing. I also set my IP to a 192.168.x.x and it still would not accept it. I finally called tech support after troubleshooting using my own knowledge and they advised me to download the latest drivers for my wireless card and for the router. I did what they told me and nothing. My prevous router before the netgear worked fine and didn't have this problem. So after 2 days of tryin to fix my problem, I decided to return the router and try Belkin out for a change. And to my relieveness, the Belkin wireless router worked with no problems. Both my laptops connected along with my wired pcs.

If all goes wrong and no solution, try another router. Sometimes things just dont cooperate.

Hello!

Problem solved when I got my new wireless Access Point.

Now everything is working fine :-)

//Ståle